My symptoms took a week to kick in. I then felt 100% a month later, and after a few weeks of this, like you I felt safe to get drunk. This brought a lot of my symptoms back, and a month after that a jolt at work took me back to square one.

I sometimes wonder whether if I had stayed off the booze I would have been well enough to withstand the jolt, which wasn't violent enough to be a big deal to most people.

On balance, I think if I had been told not to drink, and to continue this for a few months even when I felt fine I think my PCS would have been over in one month rather than 9 and counting.

Yet even the simple piece of advice 'don't drink alcohol' was beyond the knowledge of the doctors I had seen. In fact no health professional has actually warned me against alcohol until this week, 9 months in!

You wonder what they were doing for 7 years in medical school....